Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like unto him.
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Macrina the Younger
AD 379
It is more agreeable to remain silent on such questions and to consider their foolish and irreverent assumptions unworthy of a response, since the divine words forbid it, saying, “Answer not a fool according to his folly.” But the fool, according to the prophet, is “the one who says there is no God.” .